Sun, Oct. 7 | 2:00 pm | 90 minutes

The Female Gaze

Rachel Bloom co-created and stars in the CW television show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” which will return for its fourth and final season on October 12, 2018. In 2016, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy for her role on the show. She has also appeared on the television shows “Portlandia,” “iZombie,” and “Drunk History,” and in the recent film “Most Likely to Murder.” In 2011, her comedic music video about Ray Bradbury was nominated for a Hugo Award. Bloom was featured in “Television’s Comedy Auteurs,” a Portfolio in the September 4, 2017, issue of The New Yorker.

Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and an actor. She is the author of a poetry collection, “bone,” and a lyrical memoir, “The Terrible,” which was published in June, 2018. Her writing covers subjects like addiction, womanhood, and sexuality. Katy Waldman’s review of her work appeared on newyorker.com on June 13, 2018.

Lena Dunham is an actor, a writer, a director, a producer, and a philanthropist. She starred in and served as an executive producer, writer, and director for the award-winning HBO series “Girls,” which ran from 2012 to 2017. Dunham is making her return to television as a writer and executive producer for the new HBO series “Camping,” premièring this October. Her book of personal essays, “Not That Kind of Girl,” was a No. 1 Times best-seller. She is a contributor to the Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Glamour. In 2011, she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for her feature “Tiny Furniture.”

Kristen Roupenian is the author of the forthcoming book “You Know You Want This.” Her short story “Cat Person” appeared in the December 11, 2017, issue of The New Yorker, and was the second most-read article of that year.

Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate, where she wrote about language, culture, and politics, and hosted the Slate Audio Book Club podcast. She is the winner of a 2018 American Society of Magazine Editors award for journalists younger than thirty.